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Microsoft ambushes Waledac botnet

Fri, 2010-02-26 17:16 by admin

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With legal nod, Microsoft ambushes Waledac botnet
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Admittedly, from XP and earlier I always ran ZoneAlarm, but on Vista and up, I've only used Microsoft products (MS Security essentials + Windows Firewall), ...
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JavaScript/ECMAScript 5 standard approved

Wed, 2009-12-23 09:12 by admin · Forum/category:

The new standard JavaScript/ECMAScript 5 has been approved already some weeks ago. …

Its history was a bit tangled. After the 3rd edition, which was stable and unaltered for 10 years, …

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Judging a company by its web site

Sun, 2009-10-11 08:21 by Hans

How can an ordinary customer judge a company, particularly its commitment to quality and good products? That's a very difficult undertaking, and analysts spend a lot of time and earn a lot of money for this, some of it probably undeserved.

However, there is an easy substitute for judging an entire company—judge only its web site. Everybody can do that, it doesn't take very much time, it can even be entertaining and fun.

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Facial recognition face-off: Three tools compared

Sat, 2009-10-03 16:13 by admin

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Many Macs run Windows faster than PCs do. My Mac mini (yes, mini) outpaced a similarly graced Acer laptop both running Windows Vista... and once I installed ...

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Answer "No to All" when copying files in Windows XP with Shift+No

Sun, 2009-09-20 09:58 by admin

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In last week's TR Dojo Challenge question, I asked TechRepublic members how to say “no to all” replacements when copying files in Windows XP? This problem ...

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Apple cripples the iPhone

Sun, 2009-09-20 09:51 by admin

iPhone's Bad Business

Millions of users of the Apple’s wildly popular phone just found out it no longer works with office email systems. Did Steve Jobs’ company betray its users?

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What a difference a little update makes. Users of Apple's iPhone models 3G and earlier got a rude awakening at work this past week: Their phones no longer work with their office's email systems.

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The mainframe turns 45

Sat, 2009-09-19 08:01 by admin

The Mainframe: The Dinosaur That Wouldn't Die

By Michael Neubarth

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This year marks the 45th anniversary of the IBM mainframe. As Tanapong Ittisakulchai wrote in the Nation in May, "Forty-five years ago, on April 7, 1964, the introduction of the IBM System/360 sparked a revolution in computing and business."

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Telly - turn telephone numbers into words

Mon, 2009-09-14 20:14 by Hans

Telly

Telly is a computer program that finds real words for telephone numbers that can be typed into a phone instead of the number and that may be easier to remember. It currently covers two languages—English and German. Try it, you may like it.

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Free Microsoft Antivirus Software

Sat, 2009-06-20 09:56 by admin

Now available in selected countries.

Free Microsoft Antivirus Software Next Week
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It will make the test-phase service, now officially named “Microsoft Security Essentials,” available for download onto properly licensed Windows PC in Brazil, Israel and the United States running Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating ...
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Spam volumes drop by two-thirds

Thu, 2008-11-13 13:00 by admin

Brian Krebs on Computer Security
Posted at 01:07 PM ET, 11/12/2008
Spam Volumes Drop by Two-Thirds After Firm Goes Offline

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